Program Leader
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Prof Axel Bruns
Program Leader - Digital Publics
Chief Investigators
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Prof Jean Burgess
Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
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Distinguished Emeritus Professor Stuart Cunningham
Distinguished Professor, Media and Communication
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Dr Ehsan Dehghan
Lecturer, School of Communication
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Assoc Prof Timothy Graham
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
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Assoc Prof Stephen Harrington
Discipline Leader, School of Communication
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Dr Jenny Hou
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
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Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
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Prof Peta Mitchell
Professor, School of Communication
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Dr Michelle Riedlinger
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
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Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
Affiliate Investigators
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Dr Naomi Barnes
Senior Lecturer in Literacy, Faculty of Education
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Assoc Prof Richi Nayak
Associate Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty
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Assoc Prof Erin O'Brien
Principal Research Fellow
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Assoc Prof Angela Romano
Associate Professor, School of Communication
Research Fellows
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Tariq Dos Santos Choucair
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Dr Katharina Esau
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Dr Silvia Ximena Montana-Nino
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, QUT Node of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society
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Dr Abdul Obeid
Data Engineer, QUT Node of ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society
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Dr Sebastian Svegaard
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Ms Samantha Vilkins
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Xue Ying (Jane) Tan
Software Engineer
HDR students
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Albert Prestianta
PhD Candidate | Thesis: Media Literacy and Social Media: The Influence of Digital Platforms on Media and News Consumption Habits among Young Indonesians
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Daniel Whelan-Shamy
PhD Candidate | Thesis: Towards an Understanding of Noopower and Neuropolitics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
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Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Detecting Algorithmic Radicalisation Trajectories (DART)
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Kate O'Connor Farfan
PhD Candidate | Thesis: Political polarisation beyond partisanship: Identities, online strategies of interaction, communication structures and democratic trajectories.
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Ned Watt
PhD Candidate | FactCheck - GPT: An exploration of how publicly funded fact-checkers perceive implications of large language models (LLMs) on their labour and operational effectiveness.
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Maria Margarita Ochoa Diaz
MPhil Student | Thesis: Youth-led activism and peace building on social media in post-conflict Colombia
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Vicki Morganson
MPhil Student | Thesis: Humour as an expression of sovereignty: a Black anticolonial perspective on norm-setting and safety in relation to comedy
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Dagim Afework Mekonnen
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Political Discourse, Polarisation, and Hate Speech on Social Media in Ethiopia During Civil War and Ethnic Violence
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Alia Azmi
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Mapping the Online Conversations about Sexual Violence in Indonesia
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Louisa Bartolo
PhD Candidate | Thesis - You might like this, but at what cost? Considering the social responsibilities of digital platforms' recommender systems
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Dan Dai
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Comparative analysis of COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech on Chinese Weibo and the Australian Twittersphere
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Anand Badola
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Analysing the Discursive Dynamics in Social Media
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Kate FitzGerald
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Participatory Conspiracy Theorising Online: A Case Study of QAnon
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Caroline Gardam
PhD Student | Thesis: Climate change "hoax" hashtags on Instagram: multimodal discursive practices in social media mis/disinformation posts
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Nadia Jude
PhD Candidate | Thesis - ‘Battling’ bad actors or ‘inoculating’ against falsity? A policy analysis of problem representations of mis- and disinformation in Australia
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Kateryna Kasianenko
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism of Digital Publics
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Carly Lubicz-Zaorski
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Mapping the dynamics of Australian climate change partisanship and polarisation within online news-sharing spaces
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Phoebe Matich
PhD Candidate l Thesis - Discourses of fake news: constructions of truth, reality, and fakeness in Australian news media
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Maxwell Melit
MPhil Student | Thesis - Value perception and consumption habits of online news amongst young Australian adults during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
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Lucinda Nelson
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Where misogyny hides: An examination of everyday misogyny in discourses about Depp v Heard on social media platforms.
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Shaneen Page
MPhil Student | Thesis - Digital Natives go Analogue: How is Gen Z using Tiktok to discover craft and build a fashion commons?
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Sam Regi
MPhil Student | Thesis - Impacts of Process Journalism with marginalised communities: Amplifying the voices of the Royal Commission into Aged Care
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Arjun Srinivas
PhD Candidate l Thesis - YouTube’s news conundrum: An examination of ‘authoritative sources’ in YouTube’s recommendations
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Luke Troynar
PhD Candidate | Thesis - Decoding the Political Ideology of Internet Meme Subcultures Using Pragmasemiotic Methods
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Guangnan (Rio) Zhu
PhD Candidate l Thesis - A Multimodal Computational Framework for Detection and Analysis of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Twitter